SIRTE, LIBYA — Sheltering in tunnels, improvised bunkers and rooms fortified by sand-filled fridges, Islamic State is holding out in the Libyan city of Sirte, defending itself with snipers, booby-traps and car bombs against pro-government forces. After a six-month campaign of often fierce street fighting, […]
The United Nations was forced to postpone planned medical evacuations in the eastern part of the ancient city of Aleppo Friday because security assurances were not given by groups fighting in the city. “Medical evacuations of sick and injured could unfortunately not begin this morning […]
The Iraqi Army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces are bracing for a major offensive aimed to liberate Mosul, the main Daesh stronghold in Iraq. However, the operation may put at risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians residing in the city. Iraqi security forces […]
Said Mamuzini, the representative of the Arab Democratic Party of Kurdistan (KDP), spoke to Sputnik about the military operation underway in Mosul, saying that amid the military offensive, Daesh terrorists are fleeing the region with their families. Iraqi forces deploy in the area of al-Shourah, […]
The Iraqi forces are making an unexpectedly fast progress toward the Iraqi city of Mosul to free it from Daesh terrorists, the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi’s spokesman said Wednesday. CAIRO (Sputnik) — On October 17, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi announced the start of […]
US-led coalition’s focus on the liberation of Iraqi Mosul may be explained by the approaching US presidential elections, Soheib Ahmad Kakeh Mahmoud, a journalist from the Kurdish News Network in Iraqi Kurdistan told Sputnik. Iraqi security forces advance in Qayara, south of Mosul, to attack […]
The operation to liberate Mosul from terrorists could become a “total disaster” for the Iraqi Army and a United States-led international coalition, Daniel Davis, a retired United States Army colonel, wrote in a piece for The National Interest. The offensive kicked off on Monday but […]
Washington no longer has resources to reach military success in Aleppo, which is why the US decided to “leave” the city and turn its attention to Mosul in Iraq, columnist Rainer Hermann wrote for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The US-led coalition started its military operation in […]
Esil Nuceyfi, former governor of Mosul and commander of the Sunni militia “Defenders of Nineveh,” told Sputnik that Iraq would need as much support as possible in the liberation of the city of Mosul, stressing that Turkey could be of a great help during the […]
The current attempt to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul is looking promising. A US-led coalition is expected to use an approach that was previously applied during the liberation of Manbij in Syria. It cannot be ruled out that the city will be liberated by […]
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